2022 Able Muse Write Prize: Contest Winners Announcement

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Able Muse Write Prize, 2019 Winners
~ Able Muse Write Prize (for Poetry & Fiction) ~
2022 Contest Winners Announcement

Able Muse is pleased to announce the winners of the Write Prize for poetry & fiction (judged anonymously throughout by the Able Muse Contest Committee and the final judges, Dennis Must for fiction, and Aaron Poochigian or poetry). The winning writer and the winning poet will each receive a $500 prize.

Write Prize (for Fiction), Final Judge: Dennis Must (author of MacLeish Sq. and Going Dark: Selected Stories)

Lorna Brown

   FICTION WINNER: Lorna Brown - “Looking for Anna”

Here is what Dennis Must has to say about Lorna Brown’s winning story:

‘Fiction is the art form of human yearning . . . absolutely essential to any work of fictional narrative art—a character who yearns. And that is not the same as a character who simply has problems . . .’—Robert Olen Butler. Lorna Brown’s ‘Looking For Anna’ embodies the lifeblood of those stories that endure in our memory stream long after they have been read.”

The winning story will be published in the Winter 2022/23 issue of Able Muse, print edition. (No other entry in the fiction category achieved selection for publication.)

FICTION HONORABLE MENTION:

• Trish Lindsey Jaggers - “Momma Bear, 1967”

FICTION SHORTLIST:

Bruce Johnson – “Minor Possessions”
• J.S. Kierland  – “Night Flights”
Victoria Mack - “Hot Rabbi”
Suzanne C Martinez - “A Lucky Two Dollar Bill”
Mark Rhodes - “Turtle Farming”
• Roger Sedarat  – “Persian Borges”
• Alan Sincic  – “The Painting”
Rob Wright - “A Tall Tale”

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Write Prize (for Poetry), Final Judge: Aaron Poochigian (author of American Devine—recipient of the 2020 Richard Wilbur Award)

Brian Brodeur

POETRY WINNER: Brian Brodeur - “On Mistaking a Stranger for a Dead Friend”

Here is what Aaron Poochigian has to say about Brian Brodeur’s winning poem:

“‘On Mistaking a Stranger for a Dead Friend’ has it all—the sounds, the psychology (a whole theory of memory) and, most important of all, playfulness even when the subject is tragic. Bird, riverbank, and a random encounter all blend into a perfect representation of a human mind at work. Bravo!”

POETRY FINALISTS:

• Aaron Fischer  – “Ella Fitzgerald: Berlin 1960”
• Donald Wheelock  – “Crow’s Nest”

- The winning and finalists’ poems will be published in the Winter 2022/23 issue of Able Muse, print edition.

POETRY HONORABLE MENTION:

Daniel E. Haar – “Walking the Woods”
Daniel E. Haar - “Yang and Yin at Cottage Street, 1953”
• B. Fulton Jennes  – “Mrs. Tweedy Was an Atheist”
• Brett Reid  – “An Old Man Getting Dressed One Morning in the Changing Room of a Public Swimming Pool”
• David M Sloan  – “Too Close—A Pantoum”

Congratulations to our winner, finalists, honorable mention, and shortlisted: well done to all! And thank you to everyone who entered.

**NOTE: The results for the 2022 Able Muse Book Award will be announced soon.

Subscribe now to Able Muse to read the fine work of the contest winners and finalists in the forthcoming Winter 2022/23 issue.

Stay tuned for the announcements coming soon for the 2023 Able Muse contests.


Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 29): Winter 2021/22

The current issue of Able Muse, Winter 2021/22 (Print Edition, Number 29), is available, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks editions), and online excerpts at: www.AbleMuse.com

Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 29): Winter 2021/2022
Featured Poet: Rhina P. Espaillat
(Interviewed by Deborah Warren)
Featured Art: The Distance Theme

With the 2021 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction —
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.

Able Muse, Number 29 - Winter 2020/2021
editorial: Alexander Pepple • featured art: The Distance Theme • fiction:
Amina Lolita Gautier, Randy Nelson, Jonathan Starkeessays: Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Chidiebube onye Okohia, Mark Pearce, Joachim Stanley, N.S. Thompson book reviews: Travis Biddick, Brooke Clark poetry: Liz Ahl, Leo Aylen, Lee Harlin Bahan, Bruce Bennett, Hilary Biehl, John J. Brugaletta, Dan Campion, Sarah Carleton, Ted Charnley, Gregory Emilio, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Stephen Gibson, D. R. Goodman, Susan McLean, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Francesco Petrarca, Estill Pollock, Erica Reid, Mary Romero, Kelly Rowe, Leona Sevick, Michael Spence, Ann M. Thompson, Will Toedtman, Toni Treadway, E. D. Watson, Gail White, Steven Withrow.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to --Richard Wakefield (Poetry Editor); Maryann Corbett, Daniel Galef, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Jean L. Kreiling (Associate Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editor); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); L.M. Brown, Tim Frank, Erin Russell, Rob Wright (Associate Fiction Editors); Carina Fernandes (Assistant Editor).

Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com

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SUBMISSIONS:

Able Muse
(print edition):
Submission period reopens January 1, 2023, and runs to July 15, 2023. Submit for a chance to appear in Able Muse - send your best poetry, art, fiction, essays, book reviews. The submission guidelines are available here.

Able Muse Press:
submissions read during the yearly open reading period, next period is May 1 - July 15, 2023. This year’s window is now closed, but prepare your manuscripts for next year’s. The submission guidelines are available here.

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